I loved reading your touching posts. The common theme seemed to be: a mother is everything. Just one word - mother - means so many things to us all. I loved Rebecca's post because every word rang true to my ears, about how we are teachers and leaders, caring and loyal. It was such a beautiful post!

With Shannon's post , I was nodding in agreement the entire time about everything she wrote: "A mother is always prepared with a bag full of snacks, crayons, coloring books, small toys, tissues, wet wipes, bandages for boo-boos, and the occasional child's hat or extra pair of pants. And this long after the diaper bag days."

And I was blown away by the post written by Modern Mom, because she talked about the joy a babies first smile can bring, the primal need to protect ones young, and how she had experienced the sweet agony of nursing a sick baby through the night, and feeling the fierce pride of a child's first words, first steps, first accomplishments.

I loved reading this post about how we are the mothers we are because of the mothers that raised us.

Vicky's entry from Some Kind of Wonder Mom was amazingly well-written. She said that: "... I don't think anyone could have explained to me the enigma that motherhood turned out to be. It's an inexplicable conflict between utter chaos and complete unconditional love." Her entire post was beautifully written, and so very true - if you haven't read it yet, you should!

Now... the one entry that stood out the most to me, and the one we can all totally, 100% relate to is this post, titled A Mother is... a Superhero."... If I had to sum up in one word what being a mother is, this would be it: SUPERHERO. When I think about Superheroes, and I think about Motherhood - the same themes, traits, and attributes come to mind..." I loved this post so much - please go read it, you'll see what I mean! We are moms. And we are all superheros!

Congratulations, Kiki, you are the winner! Thank you for writing such an awesome entry!

And thank you, all of you, for participating and for writing such brilliant posts. Not only are you all great moms - but you're amazing writers, too!

I'm so bummed that I was computerless for this. I could do a little reading and commenting on my iphone - but posting was too hard. I'll have to check your links when I need a good laugh/cry. Nothing makes me more emotional than mom stories.